Test 3 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel…
Did the prince just pretend he was poorly to get his mum and dad going?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, pretend, be, go · To what, where: prince
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1309 «Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel brother cuts off his sister's hand, and a prince finds her crying in a tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 pretend | advmod |
| 5 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | cop |
| 8 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 10 get | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pretend | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dad | cc |
| 14 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mum | conj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 get | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pretend | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | he | get, poorly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | he not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, a fibber
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fibber | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fibber | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fibber | det |
| 4 | fibber | fibber | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, sneaky little fibber
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 fibber | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fibber | punct |
| 3 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fibber | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fibber | amod |
| 5 | fibber | fibber | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, bit of a sneaky fibber
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bit | punct |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fibber | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fibber | det |
| 6 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fibber | amod |
| 7 | fibber | fibber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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